June 8, 2013
Pettitte wins 250th as Yankees shut down Mariners
SEATTLE — Jeremy Bonderman beat them Friday night and Felix Hernandez awaits the Yankees at Safeco Field Sunday. Though baseball players rarely admit one game means more than another, it...
Palace Malice wins Belmont: 13-1 shot holds off Oxbow and Orb on turn for home
A pair of Hall of Fame jockeys were just about nose to nose as their horses hit the middle of the final turn of the Belmont Stakes. Gary Stevens, aboard...
Gunman with rifle, duffle back full of weapons and 1,300 round of ammo planned Santa Monica attack that killed four
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The gunman who went on a chaotic rampage killing four people before being fatally shot by police at a college campus planned the attack and was...
Harvey exits with back tightness as Mets drop 20-inning marathon
First the Mets lost Matt Harvey when he was forced out after seven innings with lower back tightness, the ace later saying he will be fine for his next start....
Onetime Bengals cheerleader-turned-teacher gets engaged to former student
CINCINNATI, OH — Former Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones is engaged to the student she had a relationship with while she was a teacher at Dixie Heights High School. According to...
TV producers blast alleged ricin plot actress on Twitter as a nobody: 'Never heard of her'
If only she played such a minor role in the crime! Hollywood TV producers called alleged ricin-letter-sending actress Shannon Rogers Guess a showbiz nobody on Twitter this morning – while...
ZERO WEEK: Batman’s Many Origins
So we’ve been all about “Batman: Zero Year” and how it’s a big thing and all that. But, this being comics, there’s a rich history of Batman origins going back...
Swedish Princess Madeleine weds NY banker
STOCKHOLM — Swedish Princess Madeleine fell in love in the Big Apple. Now she has said "yes" to New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a lavish and emotional wedding ceremony...
5 dead, 5 injured after Calif. shooting rampage - gunman reportedly had previous mental health issues
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The gunman, dressed all in black and carrying a semi-automatic rifle, walked calmly through the Santa Monica College campus after killing his father, brother at their...
Driver dead after car 'rockets' through LI auto body shop: witnesses
The driver of a Nissan Maxima took off “like a rocket” and died this morning when he crashed through a Manhasset auto body shop, witnesses said. After speeding westbound on...
Newark Mayor Booker formally joins NJ Senate race
TRENTON — Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Saturday formally announced he's in the race to finish the US Senate term of the late Frank Lautenberg. The 44-year-old Democrat made his...
Serena Williams beats Sharapova in French final
PARIS — Serena Williams won her 16th Grand Slam title and her first French Open championship since 2002 when she beat familiar foil Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday. The...
Force of Twitter was with him! Famed Chewbacca actor gets light saber cane back from TSA after tweeting snap at airport security
Star Wars' Chewbacca found the farce was with him — when airport staff feared his lightsaber-style walking stick was a weapon. Brit Peter Mayhew, 69, had the cane seized as...
Nearly 100 residents evacuated after retaining wall partially collapses in Washington Heights
A retaining wall collapse destroyed three Washington Heights apartment units and caused a temporary evacuation of nearly 100 residents in two buildings early this morning, officials said. The aged wall...
Mayhem in Manhattan: Wrong-way 'hit-run' driver plows into cyclist before crashing into store
A desperate crook threw Midtown Manhattan into chaos this morning, hitting a cop and mowing down an innocent bicyclist as he sped away from a violent robbery. The robber and...
Man fatally stabbed in Fort Greene housing development
A man was killed in Fort Greene early today, police said. The 63-year-old victim was stabbed in the torso about 1:35 a.m. in the Ingersoll Housing Development, cops said. Police...
Superman, 75 years on
In the prehistoric days before Parallel Worlds – i.e., last Sunday -- the Post ran a piece I did on Superman’s relevance in the 21st century, this being his 75th...
Insider attack kills 3 US troops in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, while...
South Africa: Mandela taken to hospital in 'serious condition'
JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a lung infection, the government said...
Retired federal agent fires at burglars inside his Queens home: sources
A retired federal agent fired at two burglars when he returned to his Queens home and found the men inside, sources said. The retired Department of Homeland Security agent opened...
Softbank plays footsie with T-Mobile
Tokyo-based Softbank looks like it’s two-timing Sprint. The company, which agreed to take over the No. 3 US wireless company last October, is now discussing an alternative deal with T-Mobile,...
The perfect mix
This is just right. That was Wall Street’s Goldilocks response to yesterday’s Labor Department announcement that 175,000 new jobs were allegedly created in the US during May. Goldilocks, of course,...
Business briefs
Buyback timeWalmart, the world’s largest retailer, yesterday approved a $15 billion stock repurchase plan, its first in two years. Walmart shares closed up nearly 1 percent at $76.33.Losing ‘Trust’Whittier Trust...
Wall St. sees past Lulu pants boo-boo
All appears forgiven with Lululemon. The yoga apparel retailer, which stumbled earlier this year when 17 percent of their yoga pants had to be recalled, is back in the good...
Staffers help Google CEO find a new voice
Perhaps the best perk CEO Larry Page can get at Google is a new voice.Caring employees actually built the vocally challenged CEO a synthetic voice, one of the benefits of...
Icahn’s short list for Dell
Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management are short-listing potential candidates to become the next Dell chief executive should they win a proxy battle against Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners,...
Loeb is 1 fried piper
Investors who followed hedge fund titan Dan Loeb’s hyped-up Sony activist play last month are licking their wounds today — they are down about 5.8 percent. Loeb, 51, has gained...
Intel TV is on its way
Intel’s talks to buy content from media companies for its new TV service are advancing, and the chipmaker is offering to pay as much as 75 percent more than traditional...
Dunkin’ jazzing up its stores
The world’s largest donut chain has long sold itself as a pit stop. “America runs on Dunkin’,” goes the company’s slogan, and its customers typically stop in for a pre-work...
Spine in e-book trial
Apple, as expected, came out swinging against the Justice Department in the first week of its e-book price-fixing trial — and may have even scored some points with the judge....
‘A’ for apple in streamin’
Apple Radio is expected to launch as soon as Monday, sources tell The Post. The tech titan’s much-anticipated music streaming service got closer to a reality yesterday when it inked...
5-hr. standoff
An emotionally disturbed woman wielding a large knife got into a five-hour standoff with cops yesterday before surrendering at her Lower East Side residence, police sources said. The woman, 47,...
Silver’s fat-cat $$-raiser
Embattled state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his political operatives squeezed business fat cats, labor leaders and lobbyists for campaign cash at a swank fund-raiser at The Plaza Hotel yesterday,...
Four killed in California gunman's rampage miles away from Obama fund-raiser
A crazed gunman killed four people yesterday in a bloody Southern California rampage — just miles from a fund-raiser attended by President Obama — before cops shot him dead in...
’80s ‘Night Stalker’ serial slayer dead
Legendary serial killer Richard Ramirez died in a California hospital yesterday — and the man known as the diabolical “Night Stalker” looked like the Jolly Green Giant in the end,...
Baby mama Debbie Rowe rushes in after Jacko teen tries to kill herself
Not only has Michael Jackson’s baby mama Debbie Rowe reunited with daughter Paris — but she’s also ready to take custody of the troubled teen once Paris is sprung from...
$leaze play on old lady
A scheming accountant heartlessly scammed at least $1.2 million from an elderly Jewish woman who fled Nazi-controlled Austria in 1938 — and used the cash to pay for sporting events...
LI teen killed in pal’s car wreck
A teen was killed and two others injured early yesterday on Long Island when the car’s unlicensed driver lost control, slammed into a tree and flipped over, cops said. David...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** Cops nabbed five scam artists who tried to con an elderly woman out of thousands of dollars in Chinatown, authorities said. Jun Liang, 44, Yae Chen, 46, and...
It’s good to be the king!
Mel Brooks has a good reason to party. He celebrated earning AFI’s Life Achievement Award with a throng of Hollywood A-listers Thursday. Brooks, 86, got a standing ovation at Dolby...
Actress accuses Manhattan ad agency of misusing her image for popular law-firm ads
A struggling actress who was paid a mere $600 for a TV ad spot later learned that a Manhattan ad agency resold her image around the country for $250,000, she...
Guilty in 2000 slay
A former Rikers Island correction officer has been convicted in the cold-case shooting death of his ex-girlfriend 13 years ago.Christopher Clavell faces 25 years to life in prison when he...
High schools that didn’t grade their own Regents exams last year fared worse than those that did
They lost their home-field advantage. Schools that were barred from grading their own students’ Regents exam last year fared significantly worse than schools that continued to self-score — suggesting that...
Mike veto on council paid-leave measure
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday fulfilled his pledge to veto a hard-fought paid-sick-leave bill approved by the City Council, saying it would “inevitably increase costs for employers.”“If this bill becomes law, it...
Justice’s $3M legal tender
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor collected $1.9 million last year for her memoir, bringing her total to $3 million, according to a financial disclosure released yesterday. Sotomayor received a $1...
Council fur is flying
The claws were out yesterday at a City Council hearing where a Queens legislator and a top Health Department official went at it like cats and dogs over a bill...
Buttery Deen churns up tubby toppers
Paula Deen the “Butter Queen” can’t give up her favorite fat-laden staple. The diabetic chef, blasted in the past for her high-calorie cooking methods, is hawking a new line of...
Bust a move, Kate!
Kate Upton is busting out — as a comedic actress! The famously curvy swimsuit model showed off her bouncy breasts while dancing during filming of “The Other Woman” in Westhampton,...
Actress who tried to set up hubby is busted for ricin letters to prez: feds
The “Vampire Diaries” and “Walking Dead” actress who ratted out her husband to the feds for allegedly mailing ricin-laced letters to Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama was lying — and...
O and Chinese big eye ‘casual’ summit
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Dispensing with diplomatic formalities, President Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned a casual “shirtsleeves” summit at a sprawling California estate yesterday, aiming for closer personal...
Obama left speechless by missing remarks at podium
WASHINGTON — For once, President Obama was left speechless. Obama — known for his elegance at the podium and occasionally mocked for his reliance on the teleprompter — had to...
DC ‘gall’ of duty in tax flap
WASHINGTON — A Cincinnati IRS employee complained that higher-ups in DC interfered with the probe into conservative groups.The Ohio worker mistakenly sent an e-mail to fellow IRS workers in DC,...
Online data grab helped catch NY subway plotters
President Obama yesterday delivered a powerful, no-apologies defense of the government’s secret data-mining campaign — while it was revealed that the effort foiled a terror plot to blow up New...
Fifth Ave. mayhem
A crowd of pedestrians — including an 11-month-old child — narrowly escaped death yesterday afternoon when an SUV lost control and jumped the curb at a busy Midtown intersection, authorities...
Sandy boot suit
A janitor at Goldman Sachs’ Battery Park headquarters was forced out into the treacherous post-Hurricane Sandy streets and fired because a drunken supervisor accused him of stealing a $100 bill,...
Bike-share laugh
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart weighed in on the controversial new Citi Bike program — declaring that New York City “basically imported Europe’s most boring idea.”The Comedy Central star got...
Emergency jet land
A plane bound from Boston to Florida carrying 148 passengers was struck by lightning and diverted to land in New Jersey last night. The West Palm Beach-bound JetBlue Airbus 320...
Swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay had written to-do list for boyfriend before her death
She forgot to add, “Don’t murder me.” In the weeks before she was found submerged in a Soho House bathtub, swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay penned an epic “to-do” list for...
OPM Is the real problem, not the IRS
Suddenly, Democrats are in a tizzy about wasteful government spending. At hearings this week into the IRS’s misuse of taxpayer dollars to fund staff junkets, Rep. Elijah Cummings, ranking member...
Iran’s eight dwarves
Would it make any difference? This is the question that Iranians face as their presidential election enters its final phase with a two-week campaign drawing to a close. “Supreme Guide”...
Stapleton’s Edith — and us
The Issue: The death of Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the 1970s sitcom “All in the Family.” *** I was saddened to hear of the passing of actress...
The alimony albatross: it shouldn’t last forever
The Issue: Whether states should limit the time a divorced spouse can receive alimony payments. *** This is one of the worst arguments for permanent alimony that I have ever...
Bob Dylan, chevalier
This week comes news from Paris that the Legion d’honneur has cleared Bob Dylan for France’s highest decoration. Dylan is not the first to evolve from a symbol of protest...
Don’t settle for less
Reports that City Hall is looking to settle the ongoing lawsuit against alleged racial bias at the Fire Department turn out to be wildly exaggerated. “Any suggestion that the city...
Dubya Obama
It wasn’t long ago that conservatives were complaining about Bush Derangement Syndrome. This had to do with the way otherwise intelligent people lost any sense of reason or proportion when...
Anthony Weiner & underage girls
Touchy, touchy. Despite Anthony Weiner’s best efforts at political rehabilitation, there’s just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As The Post reported this week, Weiner had a...
Saddle me with debt
Go ahead — saddle me with debt. If that’s what it takes to go to college, so be it. I know whatever college accepts me next year is likely to...
Best of the rest
WOODLAWN CEMETERY Webster Avenue and East 233rd Street, The Bronx; 718-920-0500, thewoodlawncemetery.org The best jazz club in town isn’t in the Village or in Harlem; it’s underground, in The Bronx....
Fishin' accomplished
I’m a certified landsman, in the words of Melville, passing my days pent up in plaster and lath, clinched to a desk. In need of escape, I accounted it high...
Kid stuff
TODAY SONG BOOK: The books of a beloved children’s author become a live musical experience with the Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! Wynton Marsalis and the...
The plague years
Young men were dying, and no one knew why. Even as doctors and scientists struggled to come up with a name for the disease — let alone a treatment —...
Stottlemyre, Girardi: Rivera’s off-speed stuff never stuck
SEATTLE — How different would Mariano Rivera’s career have been if baseball’s all-time saves leader had mastered what Mel Stottlemyre was teaching in the spring of 1996? In his first...
Vic C.'s Belmont picks
1: Tycoon Cat, Master Cip, Rico Capote 2: Integrity, Slan Abhaile, Odea 3: Atlantics Smile, Isntshewonderful, Lara 4: Captain Davrick, Native Singer, Bernardo 5: Speechmaker, Howies Tiz, Tony D 6:...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:15 p.m. FIRST: Mile pace; $10,000; cond1 Itsahardrocklife(JBaggitt)8-3-412-12 Big Art(SAllard)5-6-910-13 Gratias Deo(PBerry)7-4-19-24 ClaremontHanver(MLchnce)3-7-68-15 Cool Like Fire(MMacDonald)1-5-54-16 RockNAhardPlace(EAbbtell)4-5-715-17 Shady City(JPantaleano)4-2-46-18 Stimulus Plan(SSmith)5-8-48-19 Real Marriage(CCallahan)5-7-33-110 Easton Bound(NDay)8-5-115-1SECOND: Mile pace; $12,500;...
Monmouth Park Graded Entries
Post Time: 12:50 p.m. FIRST-6 fur; $21,000; clm($16,000); 3up1-Small Secret 5-24-Really Bullish 7-22-Pinot Grigio 9-25-Glowing Rate 15-13-SaintGoldieLcs3-16-LostYerNumber3-1SECOND-1 mile; $16,000; clm($16,000); 3up1-PersonalPursut5-15-a-Exhibit A 7-22-Drop the Gun 2-16-MarquefGenes30-13-Thenewmnnt15-17-a-Song Catcher7-24-Dr. V'sTreasure5-28-Global Asset 9-2a-CoupledTHIRD-1m(T);...
Meadowlands Results
FIRST-mile trot; $10,000; cond 3 SuzelleHnovr(SSmth) 6.40 4.20 3.80 10 Cantab Jones (T Tetrick) 24.00 8.20 5 To The Good Life (M Johansson) 4.60 * Exacta (3-10) $190.80 * Trifecta...
Nadal KO’s Djokovic; 1 win from 8th French
PARIS — His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 4 1/2 hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net...
Sharapova in way of Serena’s trickiest title
PARIS — For a decade, the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Williams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments. Her collection of 15 major championships includes...
Lawyer: Don’t jump gun on Jets’ Goodson
Depending on whom you believe, Jets running back Mike Goodson might not be in as much trouble as originally believed. Anthony Fusco, the lawyer for Goodson, said yesterday Garant Evans,...
Sports Shorts
HOOPS: RU’s Jordan taking classes New Rutgers men’s basketball coach Eddie Jordan told ESPN.com he is taking classes in an effort to get his degree after it was reported he...
Attorney calls MLB bullies
While Major League Baseball has an agreement in place to speak with Tony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis, the Miami-area clinic at the center of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal,...
Home Team Lineups
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Hondo’s roaring
The spaced-out Astros weren’t up to the task last night in Kansas City so Hondo’s accounts payable expanded to 235 gulletts.Tonight, Mr. Aitch expects Lyons to show some pride against...
Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing10 a.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice: Party in the Poconos 400 SPEED11:30 a.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup Practice: Party in the Poconos 400, Final Practice SPEED1 p.m.Formula One Qualifying: Canada Grand Prix...
Harper owners ought to brace themselves
There are seven words a fantasy owner never wants to hear come out of a star player’s mouth — seven words that will send chills down your spine the second...
PED use allegations mar Puello’s on-field success
How’s this for a week for Mets outfield prospect Cesar Puello? The Double-A Binghamton right fielder hit five home runs in four games and added three doubles in a 10-for-17...
Late Gatti’s induction into Boxing Hall an occasion for tears, cheers and a ...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. — Tears of joy and tears of sadness will flow here Sunday when Arturo Gatti’s name is announced as he inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
Tiger, Rory together at Open
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Masters champion Adam Scott will play together the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open next week at Merion in Ardmore, Pa.For the third straight...
Orb, Oxbow face tough test in wide-open Belmont
Orb and Oxbow. Oxbow and Orb. Any way you draw it up, there will not be a Triple Crown on the line in the $1 million Belmont Stakes today. Even...
Providence's Ledo says he can help Knicks
The NBA Draft is always full of unknown quantities. But even among a field of unknowns, Ricky Ledo is a mystery to most teams. That’s because Ledo, one of the...
Big fall for Big 3? Another Game 1 defeat raises doubts about the Heat
MIAMI — It took one lousy fourth quarter and a late circus banker by the Spurs’ Tony Parker to recast doubt on the viability of the South Beach Big 3...
Spurs' Parker relives his French kiss
MIAMI — Tony Parker said his shotclock-beating, off-the-deck, off-the-backboard, 16-footer will rank as the top bucket of his career — but only if the Spurs win the title in the...
If Penguins fire Bylsma, he'd move to top of Rangers' list
The Penguins’ loss could be the Rangers’ gain. For if Pittsburgh general manager Ray Shero — perhaps under orders from team chairman Mario Lemieux — dismisses coach Dan Bylsma in...
Bruins oust Penguins to reach Cup Finals
BOSTON — Adam McQuaid scored early in the third period, Tuukka Rask posted his second shutout of the series, and the Bruins swept their way to the Stanley Cup finals...
Yankees' Rodriguez starting to run again
TAMPA — Alex Rodriguez has a long way to go to rebuild his reputation both on and off the field, and though he again declined to address his situation yesterday,...
O’Neill fired up to follow uncle’s pinstriped footsteps
There again will be an O’Neill in a Yankees uniform. No, Paul O’Neil isn’t making a comeback, but his nephew could be on his way to The Bronx sometime in...
Mets go back to the future with Mazzilli
Lee MAZZILLI’s text came shortly after his son L.J. was selected in the fourth round of the MLB draft by the Mets yesterday. The baseball lives of father and son...
Wheeler scuffles as Mets callup nears
TACOMA, Wash. — Zack Wheeler, cruising to an easy night here at Cheney Stadium, lost his rhythm after the Las Vegas 51s put up a long, five-run top of the...
Mets Triple-A manager Backman deserves big-league shot
TACOMA, Wash. — Wally Backman no longer is a reclamation project or the subject of a baseball rubbernecking endeavor. As manager of the Las Vegas 51s, baseball’s most challenging Triple-A...
Mets to call up Aardsma to bolster bullpen
The Mets plan to summon Triple-A right-handed reliever David Aardsma in time for this afternoon’s game against the Marlins, a source told The Post. The 31-year-old Aardsma appeared in eight...
Yankees let Wang go free, former ace will sign with Blue Jays
SEATTLE — With a rotation of CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte, Phil Hughes and David Phelps and depth in Ivan Nova, Vidal Nuno at Triple-A and Michael Pineda starting...
Fourth inning sinks Kuroda, Yankees in Seattle
SEATTLE — Joe Girardi mentioned Hiroki Kuroda’s inability to throw his strike slider. Kuroda agreed with the Yankees manager, the lineup did very little against Jeremy Bonderman and Reid Brignac...
The ‘Riot’ act
Pussy Riot, a totally talentless, self-righteous punk not-rock group — who are better at self-promotion than Donald Trump — are the subjects of an endless documentary on HBO about their...
Arc of Joan: Rivers at 80 a workhorse
Joan Rivers, who turns 80 today, just lost her older sister, Barbara, who died earlier this week. Yet Rivers — who was with Barbara when she passed — is like...
Weird but true
A newly divorced woman met a man on an online dating site and spent nearly a year detailing her problems with her ex — not knowing that he was her...
Hofstra's Verbitsky goes to Padres
Joe D’Auria never has had a hunch work out so well. It was Bryan Verbitsky’s sophomore season when the Island Trees High School coach told him he was going to...
Hurley Sr. works OT to keep St. Anthony going
You know Bob Hurley Sr. had other opportunities. Not just Rutgers or Seton Hall, but big-time Big East and ACC powers, and there is no program in the country that...
BEST BETS: UFC on Fuel TV 10
The day before every major event, The Post’s MMA expert Marc Raimondi breaks down what you should know in order to intelligently wager on the fight.On Saturday, the UFC is...